ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,443, issued on July 15, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Dynamic illumination control for depth determination" was invented by Fengqiang Li (Redmond, Wash.), Zihe Gao (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Hall (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhaoming Zhu (Redmond, Wash.), Shuochen Su (Seattle), Huixuan Tang (Redmond, Wash.), Xinqiao Liu (Medina, Wash.) and Nicholas Daniel Trail (Bothell, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A depth camera assembly (DCA) optimizes illumination and image capture of a local area to generate depth information of the local area. The DCA determines depth information for a first portion of the ...